Valparaiso Practice Grant. “Practicing Our Faith with Non-Traditional, Pre-Seminary Students.” August 2004 to June 2006 ($10,000 for a two-year program). University of Dubuque. Consulted on a $5,000 supplementary grant extension for this project, June 2006

Nominated to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2005

McElroy Student/Faculty Research Project. “The Virtues of Passion: Reflections on the Ethics of Emotion.” Iowa College Foundation. Joint grant for $1,750 with my student, Christoffer Heindel. 2004-2005. University of Dubuque

Teaching of the Bible Grant. Office of Educational Institutions, Presbyterian Church, USA. 2003-2005 ($10,000 for a two-year program). University of Dubuque

Pew Younger Scholar Graduate Summer Seminar, 1998

Publications

“Practices of Nonviolent Intellectual Inquiry: An MacIntyrean Account of Toleration in the Pursuit of Truth.” Peace and Justice Studies Association/Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Conference. Marquette University. October 2009. (Forthcoming)

“The Practice of Loving One’s Enemies: The Transcultural Practice of Pursuing Truth.” Annual Conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry. St. Meinrad’s Seminary, Indiana, July 2008.

“Commitment to Teaching in a Postmodern Age.” Workshop for “Faith and Academic Commitments in a Postmodern World.” Faculty and Graduate Student Symposium. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2008.

“Conceptualizing and Cultivating a Virtue: Paradoxes of Courage.” Conference on the Cardinal Virtues: Courage. Virterbo University, March 2008.